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A Brooklyn Bridge getaway.

XXXXX FRIDAY, JULY 26 XXXXX

Title:Point presents:

Salish

A maddening trip through the dark comic ruminations of the defeeted.
Title:Point is excited to invite you to Salish, a full-scale theater
production in New York's coolest altarts mecca, the Silent Barn. Salish
is Title:Point's fifth event of 2013 and a worthy follow up to the Wild
Boys, the immersive exploration of William S. Burroughs' classic novel
as well as May's Q and Y: A Brief Comedy About Death.

Salish is the journey of two isolated strangers who must navigate
through an obtuse landscape and it's mysterious inhabitants to answer
the question: Where did all of these severed feet come from? It is a
comedy.

Head On is a dance party where every month we pit two themes against
each other, head-to-head, Thunderdome-style. This month we've decided to
get back to our all-ages rock show roots by pitting punk against glam.
You'll have to decide whether you should pogo or ... er, do whatever it
is people do when they listen to glam? Oh, that's right: dance their
asses off.

At midnight, two of our DJs will take opposite ends of the stage and
pit song after song against one another while you work yourselves into a
frenzy. Based on your dance moves and your cheering, we'll crown a
winner, who gets a victory lap as we settle in for more glam rock, punk
rock, and a smattering of post-punk for good measure.

Will the winners be the Clash, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and their
be-leather-jacketed brethren? Or will the likes of Bowie, T. Rex, and
Queen end up as champions? And what side does Iggy Pop fall on anyway?
With resident DJs Brian Blackout, Spoolwork, and Lepaux. Two DJs enter,
one DJ leaves.

Bell House

149 7th Street, Brooklyn

10p-late; $free

facebook.com/HeadOnParty

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Music Producer and Artists Networking Party

The Set NYC presents a night of music producers, DJs and producers, and
visual artists. Featuring Mason Gross School of Art Bethany Robertson,
Sullivan Room music producers, and projection mapping visual art by
Jiggy Wiz among others. Showcase your art, talent, music, original
beats, and network with NYC's industry people. Tell your friends and
send some invites, post it on your wall and remember to bring business
cards.

Celebrate summer, art, and good times at LaunchPad's Haunted Murder
Mystery Beach Party, an interactive evening where the audience will work
together to solve a murder mystery while experiencing awesome art and
performances, or just hang out, drink, dance, and party amid the
artistic chaos. It's up to you.

One year ago legendary boogie-boarder, Chip Rigby, died in a freak
accident at the national boogie-boarding championship (hosted by
LaunchPad, of course). Some say that ever since that day his ghost has
been haunting LaunchPad trying to solve the mystery of his death, which
prevented him taking the championship title in 2012. On July 26th,
LaunchPad hosts the 2013 boogie-boarding championship featuring many of
the same competitors, who are all suspects in Chip's eyes. Strange vibes
are afoot, dudes and dudettes.

Tribes By Air will take place on the top floor of a parking garage in
Chinatown that we're calling the Flight Deck. We're bringing in our boys
Thesthetics to transform the space as well as it's rooftop with
installations and projections and have an incredible list of DJs lined
up to pump jams all night long. With Obey City, Dkds, Sophia M.A. back
to back with Medina, and Wodge Daddy.

Flight Deck

Buy tickets for address; Manhattan

10p; $10 presale, $15 door, $20 weekend pass

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***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Coalition of the Illing

Brooklyn's flagship beat scene party is coming to the new outdoor back
patio stage at the Paper Box. After a spring and summer of parties and
live-streaming events, let's all gather together under an open roof and
groove out this Saturday night. With a few favorite beatmakers from past
parties as well as a headliner from Modeselektor's own label, we
guarantee you will get your beat fix this weekend. The party is hosted
by Brooklyn's prolific MC Fresh Daily. In case it rains, we will be
inside in the other brand new stage. Lineup: eLan, Ohbliv, AwNaw (Josh
Hey and Swarvy duo), and Suzi Analogue. Hosted by Fresh Daily.

Paper Box back patio

17 Meadow Street, Brooklyn

L train to Montrose or Grand stations

9p-3a; $12 advance, $15 door

facebook.com/events/619913884685503

ticketfly.com/purchase/event/322395)

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Reverend Jen's Troll Stroll

Have you ever wanted to stroll the Lower East Side led by one of New
York City's last remaining eccentric bohemians who actually lives on the
LES? Now you have the chance. Reverend Jen, an elf who lives in a Troll
Museum will give you one.

There will be several fascinating stops on this stroll. It will start
on the southeast side of Delancey and Orchard, directly across from the
Tenement Museum where the Rev. was just unjustly fired after 12 years of
loyal service, then head to various historic sites (like Jade Liquors
and BandB 99-Cent Plus) before finally heading to the world famous Troll
Museum. It will be fun (though walking shoes are advised). The Troll
Stroll's mission? To keep the Lower East Side weird while also
celebrating its history as a birthplace of diversity, labor reform, and
drinking. Rev. Jen will even throw in a Tarot Reading for a small extra
charge. And there will be a bikini-clad assistant involved (weather
permitting.) There is no dress code, by the way.

Southeast corner of Orchard and Delancey, Manhattan

3p; $20 heavily suggested donation and maybe a beer or too, but no one will be turned away because of lack of funds

revjen]at]revjen.com

301 655 2820

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Small Claims Court presents:

Fall of Rome: An Unofficial History

A performance in vignettes, Fall of Rome is a contemplation of
strangers and strangeness inspired by Anne Carson's the Fall of Rome: A
Traveller's Guide. Small Claims Court is a newly formed devised
performance group based in Sea Cliff, Long Island, led by Sarah Matusek.

Silent Barn

603 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn

10p, after Title:Point's show Salish; $8

smallclaims.biz/

smatusek]at]bennington.edu

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Rumble

Rumble is Brooklyn's finest retro greaser rock n roll party for queers,
freaks and the otherwise sexual. Summer got you sweltering? Dance it
off to our signature mix of soul, garage, rockabilly, and punk.
Featuring on the ones and twos: DJ Johnnie Valentine and DJ
Drumpelstiltsken. Be there or be square, and don't be square.

Join Hostess World Famous Bob and the fanfare of legendary talent.
Categories for this year's talent contest are, creative kids 9-12 years
old, creative kids 13-17 years old, circus freaks and sideshow geeks and
song and dance. First prize in each category will receive a cash prize
of $250, and day passes to participating Coney Island Amusements.

The Best Dressed person in each category will receive a special mystery
prize. This year's celebrity judges include; Balkan accordionist with
Raya Brass Band and music director of the NYC Village Halloween Parade,
Matthew Fass, the Burlesque mayor of NYC, author and playwright, Jonny
Porkpie, the Tap Dancing Tornado Helen Pontani, and Brooklyn Based
Performance Artist, Dancer and Producer, Darlinda Just Darlinda aspiring
musician, 14-year-old Sequoia Harrison.

Coney Island Boardwalk, between 10th and 12th streets, Brooklyn

3-8p; $free

coneyislandtalentshow.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Pronto Comics's Third Phrases to Pages

The event will feature contests, industry guests, refreshments, and
music -- plus free drinks. Bring your portfolios and scripts, as Pronto
Comics will also be reviewing portfolios and scouting for new talent.
Contests will consist of writers and artists pairing off, being given a
mystery phrase, and drawing and writing one comic book page based on the
phrase. Winners will be published in a special portfolio comic, given
to industry professionals and available at conventions.

Pearl Studios

500 8th Avenue, 12th floor, studio 1209, Manhattan

7:30-10:30p; $10

21 and over

facebook.com/#!/events/534671656595208/?fref=ts

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Pulsewave: Quebec Edition

Pulsewave started in March 2006 as a way for chip-music composers from
all over the world to showcase their live music, paired with live
visuals, on a monthly basis. Chip music is a kind of music made from
archaic hardware, including Nintendo Game Boys, Nintendo Entertainment
Systems and Commodore 64s. This month's event features Battle Lava,
Pocaille, XC3N, and visuals by DIY Destruction.

LaunchPad

721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn

2,3,4,5,C to Franklin Avenue station

8p open mic, 9p show; $10 suggested donation

XXXXX SUNDAY, JULY 28 XXXXX

James Bond NYC Presents: Welcome to the Orange Club

Influential elements have resurrected an old and cherished institution:
the Orange Club. Once the playground for the powerful, the Orange Club
was a private casino club where often the fates of man were decided.
Today's society views such clubs as the romantic subject of yesteryear; a
bygone era of catchy mad men spies and campy super villains. Surely
civilization no longer stakes its future interests at a poker table.

A poker tournament involving international persons of interest will be
conducted in a secret Midtown location. Right under the noses of the
cable media, Google, Facebook, Congress, even the NSA, the fates of man
are being decided again. Cards are not electronic, cards are not
traceable. Trust is always in the cards.

Gaming by Traveling Poker Academy, LLC, story by James Bond NYC and
Everything Epic Games, featuring Ember Flame as Katja Malin, photography
by Gianna Leo Falcon. One-third James Bond Live Action Role Play
adventure, one-third casino gaming, and one-third cocktails, all shaken,
not stirred. James Bond NYC is the only 007 themed role-play group in
the world. This group is for Bond fans that appreciate creative and
exotic escapism. We specialize in professional casino gaming plus
detailed role-play challenges. Every event is deeply immersive within
the universe of Bond. Beginners encouraged.

People were so moved by this film when we showed it last September at
the Myrtle Village Green Opening, 596 Acres is doing it again. My
Brooklyn tells the story of the changing of downtown Brooklyn in recent
years and explains the role of city policy is determining what our
neighborhoods look like. You can read about the film below.

This screening is part of a series of house parties this July for
people to see and talk about the film. There will be a facilitated
discussion after the film, based on questions and suggestions for
concrete action that the filmmakers have developed. If you'd like to
volunteer as a facilitator, email us with My Brooklyn in the subject.

Myrtle Village Green

636 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn

dusk; $free

organizers]at]596acres.org

mybrooklynmovie.com/

facebook.com/events/393759567397097/

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

SnapCrackle

The SnapCrackle party pops up (and pops off) at a new location. It's on
a roof and it's in Brooklyn. And it's got a lovely view of the sunset
over the Manhattan skyline. And it's close to a subway. RSVP to find out
the rest. Join DJs Agent Trevor, Malik Work, Misbehaviour and Kenny
Nix, on rotation on the (now mobile) SnapCrackle sound system playing
top-notch classics of the past, present, and future.

RSVP for location, Brooklyn

4-11p; $free

snapcracklenyc]at]gmail.com

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

Hissy Fit

Brought to you by the guys behind Bushwick's queer electropop party
Tantrum. Featuring live performances by North America and Ca-The-Drals.
DJ sets by Jessamess, Scot Bowman, and DJ Pegasus. Drag shows by
Untitled Queen and Lady Simon.

Ripper's

98-1 Shore Front Parkway, Queens

1-9p; $free

all ages

86badvibes.com/

facebook.com/events/468173846601977/

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

Flux Fest: 10 Short Films About Time Travel

Mythic Bridge, a non-profit organization committed to providing
filmmaking education to the underserved and Big Vision Empty Wallet
(BVEW), a networking platform to develop and showcase creative projects,
have teamed up to present Flux Fest 2013. Flux Fest is a film festival
that commissions up-and-coming NYC filmmakers to make short films about
time travel in under eight weeks.

The third in an ongoing series of festivals, Flux Fest follows in the
footsteps of its predecessors -- Spooky Fest and Love Fest -- in
challenging a group of young filmmakers to produce high-quality,
entertaining works of cinema inspired by a series of creative prompts
drawn by each filmmaking team at random. The teams have only eight weeks
to take their projects from concept to completion, all culminating in a
night of screenings, networking, and celebration.

Sandbox Studios

154 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn

6p; $10-15

fluxfest.com

fluxfest.eventbrite.com

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

The Harvard Alley Workshop's presents:

Traces

Traces is an original multimedia performance devised in collaboration
with Jennifer Restak, Catalina Lavalle, and Amanda Alef of the Harvard
Alley Workshop, a multi- disciplinary performance workshop incorporating
visual arts, writing, music, and sculpture into the creation of
original performances.

The piece incorporates movement, video, music and spoken word combined
to locate the audience within the process of dislocation and recovery
experienced by the main character. A live performance can become both
enhanced and eclipsed by video and multimedia, as the screen competes
with the performers for the viewer's attention. Traces engages this
conflict, using video-- specifically the footage of traces, social media
and communications technology-- to depict the emotional struggle of
this woman and our creative process. Moreover, through social media
technology, we self-curate a public image and identify with that. The
tension between rehearsal and performance is similar to what happens
when technology substitutes for lived experience: we ourselves watch
ourselves living.

Matchmaker to the stars, Amy Van Doran, hosts her seriously fun monthly
singles mixer for her gorgeous and amazingly cool friends. This month,
she is turning Culturefix an art gallery/ bar into the most glamorous of
singles retirement communities for your mingling pleasure. Make new
friends, fall in love over musical chairs, throw a hip out during the
limbo contest, or win the bingo jackpot.

Culturefix

9 Clinton Street, Manhattan

8-10p; $15, and ticket sales go toward the big bingo jackpot

brownpapertickets.com/event/430758

amyvandoran.com

facebook.com/events/633559123335888/

***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****

The Skinny: America Under Surveillance or Let's All Show Each Other Our Privates

Imagine Meet the Press crashed into the Late Late Show With Craig
Ferguson. The end result would be the Skinny with Peter DeGiglio, a
comedy news talk show that tackles a new hot button sociopolitical issue
each month; often ripped right from the headlines.

For each month's show the Skinny features two guests: the Skinny
Exclusive, a local artist commissioned to create a performance centered
specifically around that month's theme, and the Very Special Guest, a
high-profile figure from the world of journalism, literature, politics,
academia, grassroots or the media. This month's show features comedian
Ike Ufomadu as president Barack Obama and Dr. Alice Marwik, professor of
Media, Culture and Communications at Fordham University.

Under St. Marks Theater

94 St Marks Place, Manhattan

9p; $10

212 777 6088

smarttix.com

XXXXX THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 XXXXX

The Future Is Now

This unique invitational brings together a curated selection of
prolific street and urban contemporary artists and musicians for a
weekend of cutting edge art, music, technology, and performance.

The final live performance. After selling out numerous performances
across the country of their critically acclaimed calling-card Twin
Peaks: The Beginning live Twin Peaks resoundtracking, Silent Drape
Runners are putting an end to it. And themselves. Tonight, say goodnight
and goodbye to Laura Palmer and to Silent Drape Runners the band as
they perform Twin Peaks: The Beginning for the final time.

Monday, July 22, 2013

The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. You take a deep breath, you jump and you hope that there is water in the bottom of the pool when you land. And a host of other blaghing thoughts and philosophies on this blogging day. And so as that Google page rank update still wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job when that internet get rich quick thing does not get rich quick, I find myself going through this blog in search of another one of those recycle this blog posts to post on this blog in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever blaghers block possible. And in other blogging thoughts, boy is there weird wacky extreme weather on planet earth these days and times. And that's a whole another climate change global warming blog post....

Kids

Hey Bloggers, or at least whoever may
be reading this blog post. And I am not exactly sure how I came across
this one in my internet travels in internetland, though it seems to be
from that publication WIRED, and I
sure seem to find it sitting in my email inbox as if it could be waiting
for me to post it on this blog or something. And the following is one
of those postings I find myself posting that I thought was interesting
to repost, and besides, hey it's less writing sometimes... Have a great 100 things your kids may never know about day.

Audio-Visual Entertainment

1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
2. Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
3. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to todays teenager.
4. The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.
5. Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
6. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
7. High-speed dubbing.
8. 8-track cartridges.
9. Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.
10. Betamax tapes.
11. MiniDisc.
12. Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.
13. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio bork this concept.)
14. Shortwave radio.
15. 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
16. Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.
17. That there was a time before ‘reality TV.'

Computers and Videogaming
18. Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
19. The scream of a modem connecting.
20. The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
21. 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
22. Using jumpers to set IRQs.
23. DOS.
24. Terminals accessing the mainframe.
25. Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
26. Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.
27. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
28. Counting in kilobytes.
29. Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
31. Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.
32. Joysticks.
33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
34. Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
35. Recording a song in a studio.

The Internet
36. NCSA Mosaic.
37. Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
38. Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
39. Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
40. Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
41. Phone books and Yellow Pages.
42. Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
43. Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
44. Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
45. Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
46. Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
47. Archie searches.
48. Gopher searches.
49. Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
50. Privacy.
51. The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.
52. Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
53. Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
54. The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs
55. The time before PC networks.
56. When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.

Gadgets
57. Typewriters.
58. Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
59. Sending that film away to be processed.
60. Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
61. CB radios.
62. Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
63. Rotary-dial telephones.
64. Answering machines.
65. Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
66. Pay phones.
67. Phones with actual bells in them.
68. Fax machines.
69. Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.

Everything Else
70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
71. Remembering someone’s phone number.
72. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
73. Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
74. Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
75. LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
76. Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.
77. Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
78. Neat handwriting.
79. The days before the nanny state.
80. Starbuck being a man.
81. Han shoots first.
82. “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.
83. Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.
84. Trig tables and log tables.
85. “Don’t know what a slide rule is for …”
86. Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
87. Swimming pools with diving boards.
88. Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
89.
Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm
of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your
finger down the silver foil of break off the first finger
90. A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).
91. Having to manually unlock a car door.
92. Writing a check.
93. Looking out the window during a long drive.
94. Roller skates, as opposed to blades.
95. Cash.
96. Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.
97. Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.
98. Omni Magazine
99. A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.
100. When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same.

My thanks go out to all of my fellow GeekDads for their contributions to this list.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

And as I type this blog entry, on this day finds itself a sad day in
America that has entered North America into the dark ages with that Trayvon Martin verdict in the headline news.
And in case you have been hiding out under a rock or have been stuck in the stone ages, this story could also seemingly have something to do with an Occupy the NRA page. And if you happen to be in that city of New York, there is a #HoodiesUp for Trayvon. Sunday 6pm ALL OUT NYC event going on at Union Square that reads:

Sunday, July 14, 2013 6:00pm in EDT

Union Square

It has been decided: black life isn’t worth shit.

Come together in force across the country tomorrow at 6pm.

Let’s not ask for justice

The clergy won’t save us

The politicians damn sure won’t save us

ONLY WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES

Take Court to the streets. 6pm Sunday 7/14.

http://trayvonoc.wordpress.com/
*Check site for an updated list of events happening around the country.

And in other blaghing thoughts on this day, there is also an Occupy Music Art Show going on in that city of New York around the same time as that Union Square event, Sunday July 14th. And I know this Occupy Music Art Show is going on July 14th at 7pm in New York City because that Occupy Music photo that finds itself posted above and all of that artwork that finds itself scattered on my floor for this event says so. And ditto, that last photo that finds itself posted above, well that photo was added to this blog post a few days after that Occupy Music Art Show. And with this Travyon Martin verdict news on this day it seems as if it wants to turn this Occupy Music Art Show into an Occupy Music day of mourning. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State. Occupy Wall Street Worldwide.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

And so it's that patriotic flag waving and barbecueing time of 4th of July year again in that country of North America here on planet earth to where I find myself blogging about something in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever blaghers block possible. And so I find myself posting this Restore The Fourth NYC - March to the Birthplace of the Bill of Rights facebook event invite that seems to have something to do with an rt.com #restorethe4th Anti-NSA protest LIVE UPDATES article and an anti-NSA surveillance nationwide protest and online campaign that is launching on Thursday, and a lot of "Snowden is a hero" and "first they came for the whistle blowers" signs to be found at this march. And that facebook event invite reads something like as follows. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State:

Thursday, July 4, 2013 12:00pm in EDT

March with us to Federal Hall, where the 1st Congress passed the Bill of Rights in 1789.

We refuse to trade our liberties for a false sense of security.

End the 4th Amendment violations:

Demand an end to unconstitutional NSA spying! Abolish surveillance that targets Americans based on their race, religion, or political beliefs! Stop Stop & Frisk!